Container for the aging of whisky.



A. S. KLEIN. CONTAINER FOR THE AGING 0F WHISKY. APPLIUATION FILED11111.13, 1911.

1,014,830 Patented Jan.'16,1912.

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ALBERT S. KLEIN, OF ST. LOUI S,'MISSOURI.

CONTAINER-FOR THE AGING OF WHISKY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16,1912.

Application filed March 13, 1911. Serial No. 614,232.

To ali 'whom it may concern; 7

Be it known that I, ALBERT S. KLEIN, a citizen of the United States, andresident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new andusefulImprovements in Containers for the Aging of Whisky, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in containers for the aging ofwhisky and has tion of a whisky barrel, the same to be inserted into aonce used barrel so as to provide the proper amount of tannic acid for:

the aging of whisky in bond.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a centralcross-sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a partialnumber of strips-or staves used in formulating the inner shell.

In carrying out my inventionI provide a shell 4 constructed of aplurality of staves or strips 5, which are made-from the refuse of thewhite oak of new timber, the same be- I ing'properly charred on both theinner and outer sides, the process of charring' being similar to thatused for the ordinary whisky;

barrel. 1

The strips or staves 5 are held in a circular position by bands orhoops6 constructed of suitable material such as wood which will not in anyway be detrimental to the whisky placed within the barrel. This shell asconstructed is placed into the ordinary whisky;

barrel or container 7.

In order to conveniently permit the 'gager to insert the gage throughthe bung 8 of the ordinary barrel 1 provide. a like opening 9 in thestrip or stave directly opposite the bung 8. These strips or stavesusedfor this purpose may be cracked irregular in surface or knotted andby the irregular surfaces the whisky Wlll be permitted to'contact withall sides of the strips and therefore extract.

from the wood the tannic acid and caramel and accomplish the sameresult, were the whisky placed in an absolute new barrel.

White oak that can be used for staves to construct whisky barrels ispractically ex- .southern States.

hausted in the northern section of the coun= try and the cooperageindustry is now compelled to use the white oak grown in the It has beenfound by experience that the timber from the South is more porous anddefective than the timber from the northern States, and the propositionof whisky barrel construction has become a serious one. This can beavoided and overcome b constructing a shell from the strips of 0 al orinferior grade of the white oak from which the strips for the barrelsproper are constructed, these strips being formulated into staves ofirregular formation, the same being properly charred bothin and out andplaced as a lining on the interior of the once used whisky barrel. Inthis manner a barrel which has once served its purpose can be again usedwith the same effect on the new whisky placed therein.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto have SB; cured to me by the grantof Letters Pat-- I cut, is:

1. A container for the aging of whisky comprising a shell charred bothwithin and without in combination with abarrel or container in which thesame is placed and separated therefrom by means of the-hoops with whichthe same is found, substantially as specified.

' 2. A container for the aging of whisky in bondcomprising a shellcomposed of a plurality of irregular strips or staves of inferior whiteoak and bound by hoops, the same being charred on both sides in.combination with a used whisky barrel, the .said staves providing theproper amount oftannic acid or caramel required for the aging of the contents therein, substant-iallyas specified.

3. A container for aging whisky compris-' ing a shell composed of aplurality of culls charred .on both sides and bound together by means ofhoops, said shell open at'both ends, in combination'with a used barrelin which the same is placed and separated from the sides thereof bymeans of the hoops, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have. signed my name to this specification, inpresence of two subscribing witnesses.

- ALBERT S. KLEIN. Witnesses:

ALFRED A. EIoKs, WALTER C. STEIN.

